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Aalto
, Alvar (Hugo Alvar Henrik)
(1898–1976)
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Abbe
, Ernst
(1840–1905)
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Abel
, Neils Henrik
(1802–1829)
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Abercrombie
, (Leslie) Patrick
(1879–1957)
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Abetti
, Giorgio
(1882–1982)
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Abrikosov
, Alexei Alexeevich
(1928– )
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Ackerman
, James S(loss)
(1919– )
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Ackerman
, Nathan W(ard)
(1909–1971)
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Adam (architects)
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Adams
, John Couch
(1819–1892)
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Adams
, Robert McC. (McCormick)
(1926– )
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Adams
, Walter Sydney
(1876–1956)
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Addams
, Jane
(1860–1935)
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Addison
, Thomas
(1793–1860)
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Adleman
, Leonard
(1945– )
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Adler
, Alfred
(1870–1937)
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Adler
, Dankmar
(1844–1900)
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Adrian
, Edgar Douglas
(1889–1977)
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Agassiz
, (Jean) Louis Rodolphe
(1807–1873)
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Agnesi
, Maria Gaetana
(1718–1799)
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Agnon
, Shmuel Yosef
(1888–1970)
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Agre
, Peter
(1949– )
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Agricola
, Georgius
(1490–1555)
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Ahtisaari
, Maarti Oiva Kalevi
(1939– )
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Aiken
, Howard Hathaway
(1900–1973)
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Airy
, George Biddell
(1801–1892)
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Aitken
, Robert Grant
(1864–1951)
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Alberti
, Leon Battista
(1404–1472)
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Alder
, Kurt
(1902–1958)
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Aleixandre
, Vicente
(1898–1984)
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Aleksandrov
, Pavel Sergeevich
(1896–1982)
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Alessi
, Galeazzo
(1512–1572)
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Alexander
, Hattie Elizabeth
(1901–1968)
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Alferov
, Zhores Ivanovich
(1930– )
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Alfvén
, Hannes Olof Gösta
(1908–1995)
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Alhazen
, Abu Alī al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham
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Allais
, Maurice
(1911– )
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Allport
, Gordon (Willard)
(1897–1967)
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Alpher
, Ralph Asher
(1921–2007)
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al-Sufi
(903–986)
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Alter
, David
(1807–1881)
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Altman
, Sidney
(1939– )
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Alvarez
, Luis Walter
(1911–1988)
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Alzheimer
, Alois
(1864–1915)
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Ambartsumian
, Viktor Amazasp Amazaspovich
(1908–1996)
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Ammanati
, Bartolommeo
(1511–1592)
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Ampère
, André-Marie
(1775–1836)
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Amsler-Laffon
, Jakob
(1823–1912)
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Anastasi
, Anne
(1908–2001)
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Anaximander the Elder
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Anderson
, Carl David
(1905–1991)
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Anderson
, Philip Warren
(1923– )
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Ando
, Tadao
(1941– )
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Andrews
, Thomas
(1813–1885)
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Andrič
, Ivo
(1892–1974)
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Andronicus II Palaeologus
(1260–1332)
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Anfinsen
, Christian Boehmer
(1916–1995)
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Angell
, James (Rowland)
(1869–1949)
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Angell
, (Ralph) Norman
(1874–1967)
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Ångström
, Anders Jonas
(1814–1874)
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Annan
, Kofi
(1938– )
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Annear
, Harold Desbrowe
(1865–1933)
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Anning
, Mary
(1799–1847)
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Anokhin
, Piotre Kuzmich
(1897–1974)
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Anthemius
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Antoniadi
, Eugène Marie
(1870–1944)
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Apgar
, Virginia
(1909–1974)
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Apollodorus
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Apollonius of Perga
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Appert
, Nicolas François
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Appleton
, Edward Victor
(1892–1965)
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Arafat
, Yassir
(1929–2004)
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Arago
, (Dominique) François (Jean)
(1786–1853)
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Arber
, Werner
(1929– )
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Archer
, John Lee
(1791–1852)
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Archer
, Thomas
(1668–1743)
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Archimedes
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Ardemáns
, Teodoro
(1664–1726)
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Argand
, Jean Robert
(1768–1822)
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Argelander
, Friedrich Wilhelm August
(1799–1875)
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Argyris
, Chris(topher)
(1923– )
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Argyropoulos
, John (Janos)
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Arias Sanchez
, Oscar
(1940– )
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Aristarchos
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Aristotle
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Arkwright
, Richard
(1732–1792)
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Armelagos
, George J(ohn)
(1936– )
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Armstrong
, Edwin Howard
(1890–1954)
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Armstrong
, William George
(1810–1900)
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Arnolfo di Cambio
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Arp
, Halton Christian
(1927– )
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Arrhenius
, Svante August
(1859–1927)
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Arrow
, Kenneth Joseph
(1921– )
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Artin
, Emil
(1898–1962)
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Arup
, Ove
(1895–1988)
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Asplund
, (Erik) Gunnar
(1885–1940)
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Aston
, Francis William
(1877–1945)
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Asturias
, Miguel Ángel
(1899–1974)
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Atkinson
, Robert D'escourt
(1898–1982)
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Attenborough
, David Frederick
(1926– )
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Audubon
, John James Laforest
(1785–1851)
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Auer
, Carl
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Aumann
, Robert John
(1930– )
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Aung San Suu Kyi
(1945– )
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Avery
, Oswald Theodore
(1877–1955)
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Avicenna
(980–1037)
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Avogadro
, Amedeo
(1776–1856)
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Axel
, Richard
(1946– )
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Axelrod
, Julius
(1912–2004)
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Ayrton
, Hertha (Phoebe Sarah) Marks
(1854–1923)
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Ayrton
, William Edward
(1847–1908)
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